BRITISH NAMES. 
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Grass, darnel; or rye, or ray grass Lolium perenne 
Grass,.dog’s; or couch; or quick; “ 
or twitch 
Grass, dog’s-tail 
Grass, feather 
Grass, fescue 
Grass, fox-tail 
Grass, fox-tail, of the Indies 
Grass, hard , 
Grass, hair 
Grass, hare’s-tail 
Grass, lyme 
Grass, marl*—see Cow grass 
Grass, mat 
Grass, smooth-stalked meadow 
Grass, rough-stalked meadow 
Grass, millet 
Grass, oat 
Grass, panic 
Grass of Parnassus 
Grass, pepper / 
Grass, poiey 
Grass, purple 
Grass, quake ; or cow-quakes 
Grass, rope, or melic 
Grass, rush 
Grass, sedge ; or Cyperus grass 
Grass, silkf 
Grass, star 
Grass, sea 
Grass, scorpion ; or caterpillars 
Grass, scurvy 
Grass, Timothy 
Triticum repens 
Cynosurus 
Stipa pennata 
Festuca 
Alopecuruspratensis 
Alopecurm in diem 
JEgilops 
Air a 
Lagurus ovatus 
Ely mus 
MUrdus strict a 
Poa pratensis 
Poa trivia Us i 
: effusum ' , 
Aristida 
Panicum miliaceum 
Parnassia palustris , 
Pilularia glohulifera 
Lythrum 
J Medicago polymorpha (a- 
\ rabica) 
Briza 
Melica 
Schoenus 
Car ex divisa 
Panicum sericeum 
f Callitriche verna ct 
tumnalis 
Ruppia maritima 
Scorpiuius vcrmiculata 
Cochlearia officinalis 
Phleum pratense 
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* Marl grass is much cultivated in some parts of Somersetshire; called so from 
its growing well on marly land. 
t Silk grass (panicum sericeum) may be spun as fine as silk, and is used for 
various purposes, but chiefly for ropes and fishing lines.—It grows in the island of 
Tobago.—See Universal Mag . for June, 1749. , 
